running java 5/6 with JNI on java 7 gives stack guard warning

java java-native-interface guard
Simon Heffer picture Simon Heffer · Sep 19, 2013 · Viewed 14.8k times · Source

A java program built with 1.5 (or 1.6 with 1.5 comparability mode on) gives this warning:

Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM warning: You have loaded library mynativelib.so which might have disabled stack guard.
The VM will try to fix the stack guard now. It's highly recommended that you fix the library with 'execstack -c ', or link it with '-z noexecstack'.

It doesn't seem to cause a problem but obviously would look a bit scary to our customers. I don't think building the java bits in 7 would fix this issue but I'm struggling to see where the docs say how to build JNI libs for Java 7, which is what the warning implies I should be doing differently.

So where should I be looking?

Answer

Data picture Data · Nov 4, 2013

Found the answer here disabled stack guard warning (ACF9, JVM 1.7, Linux)

He said

This is a feature in Java 7’s HotSpot compiler on Linux which tries to stop code written in C and linked into Java (the so-called Java Native Interface - JNI) from halting the whole VM if it’s written badly or maliciously.

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